trelja
Responses from trelja
| I need tube sound without the tubes I second the opinions on the Jolida and Musical Fidelity. Just make sure you get the previous generation MF, as they are moving away from the tube sound. In my opinion, there is no substitute for tubes. A solid state amp is often marketed as the d... | |
| Classe or Krell In my limited experience the Classe is more like Rowland than Krell. If you are looking for everything you get with your Rowland, just more of it, I think Classe might make you happier. The Krell to me is a different sound, awesome bass and kind o... | |
| VAC amps-grainy ? I have heard of no instances of VAC products, and yours specifically being grainy. A dealer will often denigrate a product, but trust yourself. If you like the sound, then you'll be happy. Even if he is being forthright, people have different tast... | |
| Tube Amp w/Solid State Pre-Amp ????? This seems a bad match to me. The tube amp you'd need to drive the B&W's is going to have to be an absolute brute. I once heard a C-J CAV-50(50W using EL34) with the N805's. Guess what? The tube amp was woefully inadequate. Couple that with th... | |
| Source of Brightness What type of output tubes does your Baron have? They ship with 5881(6L6), EL34, or KT99. Of these, only the KT99 would have any propensity towards brightness. If you have one of the other tubes, I would say the problem is your room(and I don't thi... | |
| TO be SET or to be OTL that is the ques. I am not sure if you have listened to these products. Often the sound we like is totally opposite to what we thought we would like. Fancy faceplates are beautiful, but I have often been disappointed when I actually listened to something I fell in ... | |
| Building Watt/puppy clone Someone has already done a great job for you, if you're interested. Coincident Loudspeaker Technology in Canada. Israel Blume is the owner, and is quite responsive. Only problem, they don't make them any more(these shapes are too hard to work with... |